Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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14 published records
01 / belief
“Any number of the vernacular writers who are not read. I would say among novelists, I only really read Bangla.”
02 / belief
“I don’t think in France anybody doubts that he’s great. He’s sort of the canon, so I think he’s not overrated or underrated.”
03 / belief
“I think the training schools like the SRA [Sangeet Research Academy] in Kolkata are very good.”
04 / belief
“I think rated about right again. I think Tolstoy is wonderful, but I think people think he’s wonderful.”
05 / evaluation
“I think what is difficult in Indian classical music is to keep the variation going and keep the musicality running.”
06 / preference
“The tradition that I listen a lot to is the tradition of Maharashtra and North Karnataka. And that’s where, to me, in my mind — the great home of classical vocal music right now is that part of India, the area kind of starting at Bombay, going down to Bangalore.”
07 / evaluation
“He was an economist, but I think more importantly for him in his self-presentation, he was a liberal, and he really believed in all the liberal values: freedom of speech.”
08 / evaluation
“Vilayat Khan and Imrat Khan were the two great non-Bengali instrumentalists of that period, I would say, of the strings especially.”
09 / prediction
“I think we understand some very basic insights, one being the one that my colleague, Bob Solow, made very clear, which is that growth has a tendency to run out, that once you used up your best talent and your best capital and your best locations, there’s going to be less and less so.”
10 / evaluation
“I think Lee Kuan Yew knew very well that if he didn’t deliver a very specific set of environmental conditions, and if he were falling behind, there’s Malaysia around.”
11 / evaluation
“Therefore, essentially, if you think of the rest of it, which is a small amount — that means that, if you’re a worker, you’re getting 40 cents for a $10 toy or something, and that’s just not going to make a lot of rich people or even middle-class people.”
12 / preference
“There’s always a little bit of “You have to do it if you love it.” You don’t do it because you could make money.”
13 / prediction
“I think that right now, we don’t see a way to do what I think needs to be done, which is pick the best among these people and make them much, much bigger because I think the way petty entrepreneurs have been absorbed into the economy historically has been by making some people being very successful, employing lots of people and creating large enterprises.”
14 / evaluation
“They’re among the poor. And for them, I think confidence is an enormous issue because they’ve never actually done anything in their life successfully.”